Or do other people also get Heat Wave Anxiety?

[Yamyam13]

As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying heat like this less and less and have noticed that actually, when the atmosphere is so hot and heavy like this, I feel quite anxious.
Anyone else??

Doesn't make me anxious, I love it, but I need shade most of the time now after spending my teen years toasting myself in the ME with baby oil rather than sunscreen. In my many years there I don't think anyone wore sunscreen which does make me anxious.

It needs to bloody rain!

My mother was born and raised in a hot country.

She has always struggled in heatwaves here.

my best friend was born and raised in Wales and copes fine in London heatwaves.

Actually, we do need some rain. The reservoirs in the Pennines are low, and I have never seen the river where I am at the moment so low.

@Yamyam13 are there any preparations you can make to minimise the effect of the heat on you?

There are some great ideas on another thread about the heat, one of which is to soak a T-shirt in some water, wring it out and put it on while it is still wet.

I quite like it, I went for a ten mile walk today, it's only been a couple of days and is cooling a bit in the week , then hot for another couple of days. In 1976 it was about 2 months, I was only 18 then though so wore my skimpy clothes, today I was well covered so I didn't burn

I don't like very hot weather, but it doesn't make me anxious, just sweaty and uncomfortable! Fortunately I don't experience it often, as I live in Cumbria. It was only 22 or 23 degrees max here today.

I get anxious about the heat.
But I try to be logical. I've got a fan, air con in the car. Sainsbury's is about minus 10 in the fridge ailses and I can always have a cold bath or shower.
Also a wet tea towel around your neck is brilliant.

Lol anyone would think we have never had a heatwave before.

Yes,I get anxious, especially if I have to be somewhere and have to travel on buses. I felt like I was going to faint or throw up today on the bus,it was so unbearably hot.

Before we had sorted ways to keep the house cool and I had to commute or have a small baby then yes, was actually quite awful. Have you got plans to deal with it op?
the best thing you can do is take things as slowly as possible and try to embrace it.

The last few summers have been much hotter than it used to be. 35 degrees is incredibly hot and dangerous to be in for long periods of time. I’m assuming you’ve not been on tubes or stuck in buildings without air conditioning in that weather! Or had a baby who is prone to fitting.

I have terrible eczema which is irritated by sweat so I find the heat quite annoying
also my house is in a dip and I don’t get much of a breeze So can feel quite breathless..and raging asthma/ hay fever I could just stay under a cool shower all day

I enjoy heat but several days over 30 and the 36 degrees forecast here for Sunday is getting out of my comfort zone in the UK. No aircon, we have pets and DC.

It’s basic survival instincts really and doesn’t surprise me people get anxious, like any extreme weather event it can be dangerous.

Stay cool!

Well then we would have been brought up there and be used to it? or maybe they would have better infrastructure for the heat? Sorry, am I missing a point?

It's weird that the older I get the better I can cope with it.

Having extensively traveled to hotter countries than the UK and for extended periods, those countries tend not to have carpets and heavy upholstery etc. indoors. They may have shutters and aircon. They are also used to it, in the way many of us wouldn’t survive living in extreme cold climes with certain tribes.

so saying get. A. Grip is really stupid.

I get very anxious because I don’t deal with any heat well at all. A normal sunny summer day will have me pouring with sweat, feeling faint and sick. I am insanely pale and always wear factor 50, cover up with loose clothes, hat & shades etc but still burn in minutes. My body just goes berserk in any kind of sun!

I actively avoid it wherever possible. Much prefer the other seasons.

I can’t face the thought of going on the tube and sitting in an office with no window or doors or any vents for a whole day

I truly don’t understand how anybody can enjoy it. I have been sweating buckets and feeling breathless all day. I keep looking at the weather app and getting frustrated that I can’t see an end to it. Anything over 25 is too much for me. 23 is lovely.
it’s going to be 35 on Sunday. How is that enjoyable? I don’t get it.

For those saying 'get a grip' and its hotter elsewhere etc.
Firstly, it's common knowledge that hot countries have infrastructure & design in place to deal with heat.
The majority of homes in the UK were built and furnished to insulate heat.
We also don't have as much air con etc. Less places to escape. I spent a lot of my childhood in the middle east, on very hot days we were just jumping from one air con place to another.
Some countries also structure their days differently. Like in parts of Spain where shops are closed for hottest periods of the day and then open very late. And it's also part of the culture to eat dinner and socialise very late, kids included. That's because of the heat. Siesta culture.
And as PP's have said, heat on holiday where you dont have to get on with your usual life etc and can enjoy a dip or a sea breeze is really different.
Secondly, my anxiety is not necessarily that I'm axious about the heat itself. But something about heat in London (where I love and work) sets my anxiety about other things off or exacerbates other anxieties.

From today's Guardian-

"Heatwaves can also have a significant impact on mental health, said Dr Laurence Wainwright, of the University of Oxford. “There are significant and positive associations between daily high temperatures and suicide. Roughly speaking, for every 1C increase in monthly average temperature, suicide rates increase by 1-2%.”

I like the sun but not when it’s scorching, I feel sticky and lethargic and I don’t like summer clothes so I never know what to wear.

It's a hobby here, we complain about the heat, the cold, the snow, the wind, the rain. We live on an island that has all sorts of weather ffs.

hahahahahah
been 100+ a day for the last 3months here/ not normal either
only getting worse
can you say climate change

We have had a few days of sunshine not a plague of locusts